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Mahara 1.2 E-Portfolios: Beginner's Guide

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Mahara 1.2 E-Portfolios: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Mahara is a user-centred environment with a permissions framework that enables different views of an e-portfolio to be easily managed. These views helps you display your artefacts – text files, spreadsheets, images, and videos – in a way you choose and to the people you want. You can also create online communities and social networks through groups, blogs, and forums.Being a novice, you will need a quick and easy implementation guide to set up your feature-rich digital portfolio.This book is your step-by-step guide to building an impressive professional e-portfolio using Mahara. It covers the key features of Mahara that will help you set up your customized digital portfolio and display the artefacts in your preferred way allowing contribution from selected users only.This book will introduce to the exciting features of Mahara framework and help you develop a feature-rich e-portfolio for yourself. You will see how easily you can create folders, upload multiple files like journals, project documents, pictures, and videos and share them with your friends. You will learn to set up views of these files, making these visible to your chosen friends only. And then, you will allow people to give their inputs.You will learn to create blogs and forums and get connected to the rest of the world. Customization and administration of your Mahara site will become easy after you have gone through this book. Imagine how good you will feel when you will see your knowledge, success, and ideas going live and available to your chosen audiences for their inputs.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Mahara 1.2 ePortfolios
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Preface

Chapter 5


Creating Mahara Groups

1

Anybody in the Mahara site can join an open membership group.

2

By making your group publicly viewable, you are allowing people outside of Mahara to view and access materials in your group without being logged in.

3

A Group Administrator can manage group members, create forums, edit, and delete forum posts of other users and edit group settings.

Group Forums

1

Moderators can edit or delete topics / posts in your forum. They should be responsible for checking that users in the forum are following some standard guidelines for behavior.

2

A Sticky topic is one that stays at the topic of a forum so that it is the first or one of the first that users see.

3

It is best to name your forums generally. Topics should relate to a more specific issue within the forum. It should be clear in a topic title what is being discussed.